The impact of age and medicare status on bariatric surgical outcomes

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 141, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1115-1120

  Livingston, Edward H ^a   Langert, Joshua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; BARIATRIC SURGERY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; WATER-ELECTROLYTE IMBALANCE;

EID: 33751211853     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.141.11.1115     Document Type: Article

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